P D Q Bach Abduction Of Figaro Peter Schickele Minnesota Opera Music Cd

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P.D.Q. Bach - Abduction of Figaro / Peter Schickele, Minnesota Opera      List Price : $39.95 USD        Your Price : $35.99 USD      ProductGroup: DVD      Actor(s): Dana Krueger, Lisbeth Lloyd, LeRoy Lehr, Jack Walsh (IV), Marilyn Brustadt      Release Date : 2004-02-10      Studio : Video Artists Int'l      Label : Video Artists Int'l      Avg. Customer Rating : (15 reviews)      Running Time : 144

Reviews Customer Reviews for P D Q Bach Abduction Of Figaro Peter Schickele Minnesota Opera      Abduction DVD      Rating:      Possibly the funniest thing Schickele's emitted. But then whatever of his I'm enjoying seems to get that label. If you love opera but aren't too solemn about it, you should enjoy this classic     Customer Reviews for P D Q Bach Abduction Of Figaro Peter Schickele Minnesota Opera Cd      Welche Wonne!      Rating:      I've seen so many posts wherein people name their fave operas to introduce to the fearful, and rarely do they mention this one. Why? Just because it's a parody doesn't mean it isn't real music! From the pompous, apologetic introduction by the Professor to the last aria (performed by the mute servant)this is laugh out loud funny. And it's in English, so I got the jokes!!! Just like Academy Awards tend to stiff the comedies, the urge is to enjoy this without realizing how great it is. While a lot of the music is tribute (e.g. stolen from other composers!)or send up of pop, the remainder seems to me, not a scholar but an opera lover, to stand up to any written in the time period Schickele loves. (And I think Mozart might have appreciated the joke, having written into Don Giovanni that the title character was tired of a tune Mozart himself had written.) The orchestra is fine, the principals and chorus sound wonderful, the comedy is side-splitting--even the costumes are funny, freely borrowing from many cliche operatic timeperiods and locations. Oh, by the way, at a party I attended, the following guests all watched this opera: a cable repair man, a librarian, a social worker descended from Carl Maria von Weber, a tri-lingual telephone operator, an emergency room physician, an environmental lawyer who plays classical flute, an elementary school teacher...to name a few. No professional musicians in the group, but a wide variety of interests and educations, all laughed all the way through Abduction of Figaro.